Texas Gardening: August Flowers

Two bad picks but nice plants.
1. Yellow standing cypress, these came from the 2 red plants I got accidentally last year
2. Clemetis texensis, delicate and lovely - I have broken this poor plant off to the roots twice this year.

Cheryl, you probably did your texensis a favor...the "experts" say to trim down a young plant during the first 2 years for better root development.
I will have to check if anything is alive in my yard...

You can do it on the pc before you upload them. If they are taken on your phone like mine, I first copy them to the pc then rotate them before posting. I suspect you can do it from my phone but am too lazy to figure out how. As for the obedient plant, it depends on the area. If you want veggies in that bed I would not put in obedient plants. In good soil that is watered well, they spread like crazy for me and I spent hours removing their underground roots and runners.
C

sweetmommy, the blue flowered plant is Rotheca myricoides, var. Blue Butterflies and yours is gorgeous. Roots pretty easily in water. It's tropical so I will have to take cuttings if we have a real winter this year.

I have Queen's Wreath that is so pretty just now, Lantanas of several colors blooming, Vinca, Angelonia, Rudbeckia, plumeria, roses and brugmansia, yellow and pink both blooming. I have magenta 4 o'clocks, and some crazy mixed up azaleas are blooming and no, they were not supposed to be the everblooming variety! Elderberry and purslane and my super dependable Mexican Petunias are a knockout. Pink Gaura is pretty now, my begonias are suffering from this heat by looking pale and my Blue Butterflies is blooming as well. Photos tomorrow, if possible.

Desert marigold I started from seed. Lovely gray leaves and a bright yellow flower. I need to grow more of these in full sun. It did not bloom much in the part shade area. I am thinking next year in the cactus bed.

Ruellia n. are coming up everywhere. These replaced the yellow dogweed that seeded itself all over these cracks. I find the seedlings have long roots and are hard to pull. Still its too lovely to be on the naughty list. I am seriously removing it from some beds though.
C

I am trying to do that less and less. I have really reduced my number of potted plants that have to be dealt with that way. I have some that come in for the entire winter and only a few that I run out half naked to rescue.
C

morganc- That Datura looks like a work of art!
I can highly recommend the Loofah for a spot that needs a big vine and no care. It has huge, single hibiscus-like flowers, plus you get lots of loofahs to share. I should have thousands of seeds by Winter, if anyone wants some, just let me know.

Once when I lived in a apt, I put 5gallon buckets of 4 o'clocks on my stair landing at my door so I could enjoy the fragrance. I had yellow, fuschia and white but none of them had any fragrance. I asked a lot of people why not and no one I talked to had any answers. I tried changing the pH of the soil but that did not fix it. I just charged it to their being in pots but never knew why.

Sweetmommy, do you have dear around your area? and if so do they eat the Texas star hibiscus?
Someone asked me about it, bur we don't have dear in the city, so i don't know, maybe someone does.
Josephine.

frostweed wrote:Sweetmommy, do you have dear around your area? and if so do they eat the Texas star hibiscus?
Someone asked me about it, bur we don't have dear in the city, so i don't know, maybe someone does.
Josephine.

Have you tried Quinoa? The deer don't like it and the grains come in some very pretty colors. Plus it's healthy to eat!

frostweed - Thank you. I've been taking lots of back lit photos in the morning and sunset. This one was practically straight into the morning sun. I was looking to get a bee back lit, but snapped so many a few came out pretty good.

Here's another but the bee is way blurry...they just don't hold still and pose like I want them to! LOL